[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 23, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S210-S211]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before 
the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

                             Cloture Motion

       We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the 
     provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination 
     of Executive Calendar No. 357, Anthony Rosario Coscia, of New 
     Jersey, to be a Director of the Amtrak Board of Directors for 
     a term of five years. (Reappointment)
         Charles E. Schumer, Tim Kaine, Angus S. King, Jr., Robert 
           P. Casey, Jr.,

[[Page S211]]

           Sherrod Brown, Jeanne Shaheen, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Chris Van Hollen, Tammy Baldwin, Gary C. Peters, John 
           W. Hickenlooper, Edward J. Markey, Mazie K. Hirono, 
           Laphonza Butler, Richard J. Durbin, Margaret Wood 
           Hassan, Jeff Merkley, Peter Welch.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Anthony Rosario Coscia, of New Jersey, to be a Director 
of the Amtrak Board of Directors for a term of five years 
(Reappointment), shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from South Carolina (Mr. Scott).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 19, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 15 Ex.]

                                YEAS--79

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Britt
     Brown
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--19

     Blackburn
     Braun
     Budd
     Crapo
     Daines
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Lee
     Marshall
     Paul
     Risch
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Sullivan
     Tuberville
     Vance

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Kelly
     Scott (SC)
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). On this vote, the yeas are 79, the 
nays are 19.
  The motion is agreed to.

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